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Chennai: At a special sitting on Thursday, the Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution asking the Centre to constitute the Cauvery Management Board (CMB) and the Cauvery Water Regulatory Committee (CWRC) within six weeks as per the directive of the SC. Opposition leader…

Hyderabad: Telangana’s debt stands at Rs 1.80 lakh crore, according to the Budget 2018-19 tabled in the Legislature on Thursday, on which the government is paying interest of Rs 11,000 crore every year. Servicing the debt is a major burden on the…

HYDERABAD: In yet another incident of ‘live’ suicide in the city, a 20-year-old ITI student committed suicide at Neredmet. Ajmer Sagar hanged himself while on a live video chat on WhatsApp with his girlfriend. The girl was seen on the video requesting…

The flag at Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge flew at half mast, and students brought flowers to the college gate as the university city of Cambridge paid tribute to world renowned physicist Stephen Hawking. Hawking died at the age of 76…

The nearly $2 billion fraud at the Punjab National Bank (PNB) last month has renewed calls for privatization of state-owned banks. The managerial argument for privatization is it would make for more prudent decisionmaking, increase accountability to shareholders, reduce complacency in management,…

Indian Railways is at a crossroads. Aided by the government’s renewed thrust on Indian Railways’s transformation, it can become a strong, profitable, reliable and publicly trusted organization. In the process, it can play a big role in serving India’s fast-growing transportation needs.…

Come March-end, tourists wanting to travel to the hills from Delhi will have the luxury of locating buses on their phone through an app being developed by Delhi government. Among its primary features, the app will allow travellers to look up timings…

The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) on Wednesday told the Delhi High court that they did not block access to the administrative block and hence did not violate court’s order on holding protests in the varsity. They added that the direction…

Hyderabad: Congress MP K.V.P. Ramachandra Rao came down heavily on AP Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday. Speaking to mediapersons , KVP said that both the CM and the PM had been ignoring the interests of…

The opposition on Tuesday complained to Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan that the Narendra Modi government was trying to bulldoze the entire financial business without a discussion on it and was “hell bent” on passing the Finance Bill “without proper scrutiny”. A…